Ropesville, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Ropesville, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Ropesville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Ropesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Ropesville — the short answer
Ropesville, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 232 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 232 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Ropesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ropesville's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ropesville
Each reading below is measured for Ropesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRopesville runs about 232 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredRopesville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Ropesville is in
Ropesville sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Ropesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hockley County.
What Grows in Ropesville
Every plant below cleared Ropesville's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ropesville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Ropesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ropesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EAGLEMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- ROPES FARMERS COOP GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- ROPES ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- YESWAY 1167Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- XY-24-47-207Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- XY-24-47-3x1Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- GREGG AERIAL SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- CENTER GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- SOUTH SMYER COOP GIN SITEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- SCOTT MANUFACTURINGToxics Release Inventory · 7.4 mi
- CITY OF WOLFFORTHPFAS · 8.8 mi
- FIRST CLASS ENVIRONMENTALBrownfields · 9.6 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ropesville's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Ropesville.
Total Sites
19
within ~10 miles of Ropesville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ropesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ropesville
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Ropesville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ropesville average
Your land is one point inside Ropesville
Everything above resolves to Ropesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 232 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Ropesville Average
Ropesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Ropesville
- ●One soil character for all of Ropesville
- ●Frost dates read at Ropesville's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ropesville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Ropesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ropesville average
How we know this about Ropesville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Ropesville’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Ropesville
When does frost risk typically end in Ropesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ropesville typically lands around Mar 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 15.
When is the first frost in Ropesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ropesville typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ropesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ropesville sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 29, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ropesville?
The federal record around Ropesville shows 19 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (9), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Ropesville?
From about Oct 13 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ropesville's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ropesville's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Ropesville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Ropesville's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 232 acres it covers and 19 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ropesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ropesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 12 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 19 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ropesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ropesville's boundary and the 232 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ropesville's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ropesville's 232 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hockley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hockley County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Hockley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ropesville's 232 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ropesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 232 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Ropesville-wide figureread your own land →